The campaign forum is the proper place to discuss plot, characters, bugs, balancing, and yes, how WML is used in scenarios. But, if you are in the campaigns forum and find yourself wanting a stand-alone thread about a WML issue, bring it here!

We hope to have a usergroup of WML experts who can provide answers and this gives them a central place to look.

toms wrote:There should be links to forum threads in the wiki pages for more info and examples.

It would be more useful (and practical as the forums are subject to depreciation and sometimes loss of data) to have, for each page in the reference, a page with examples. Called EventWMLExamples for instance. Then every page could have a little sentence like this:
For examples on this see [[EventWMLExamples]]

This would free the reference itself from becoming clutterd with code and yet it would provide this code, with enough comments!

It would on the other hand, also mean that all of the pages in the wiki would double. So perhaps doing this only for the more complex tags (like [Event]) it would be a good idea?

I think examples are very necessary, because they help user if the explanation is difficult to understand... and for a beginner it may be confusing. And also it is easier to copy-n-paste the example to one's code, and then modify the details.

I'd rather have things so that people could always look at the mainline campaigns as an example. If you need to know how [store_locations] works, you can just grep/search the core data directories for [store_locations] and look how it's used. Examples in the wiki are ok, but someone would still have to write them.

zookeeper wrote:I'd rather have things so that people could always look at the mainline campaigns as an example. ...

Having examples in the wiki doesn't mean you can't look for more inside the mainline campaigns. I would even put this as a note on those example pages. If that's your way of doing it, sure, but some like the guidance of a wiki. It would also be good as an example for preferred indentation/hierarchy of the code/readability/...

As for me, I prefer not to interfere too much with the mainline campaigns as they work, and I'd like to keep it that way. There's always this small chance you screw things up by accident (or stupidity ). (And yeah, you can restrict your permissions, and you could make back-ups, but that's more work. Putting an example on the wiki saves work for many people.)

anyway, would you stop me (and perhaps others) from adding some pages to the reference with example code concerning those specific tags? I'm not going to be crazy about it, because I don't have the time

I think this site is more clearly arranged.
A few things like new abilities and rpg-like character-advancement aren't used very often in the official campaigns.
Examples would be useful or links to an addon.

There is also a partially-complete WML Tutorial which would be helpful to the WML newcomer. Note that it is a work-in-progress and that some sections are more complete than others, but it does exist. The ReferenceWML page, while extremely helpful to those who already understand WML, can be confusing to beginners.

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Supporter of the addition of the Aragwaithi into mainline.